Adventures As Me

One of my goals for Loquacity (ne: bBlog) is to improve comment security. Meaning, put as many tools in the hands of blog authors/owners as I can so they can secure their commenting against spam. usually this involves things like captchas.
Some though prefer to use a login system to verify a commenter is legit. While [...]

My continuation of bBlog I have renamed to Loquacity (from loquacious). I’m preparing to release version 0.8-alpha1, which includes these changes:

Unified comment and trackback handling (both have same checks for example)
Captcha
Migration to ADODB for Database simplicity
Separate code into logical units (e.g. a commentHandler class that handles all things comment related)
Reorganization [...]

Work is starting again on PowerBlog. Why the silence? Because I switched jobs and moved…again.
Anyway, I’m beginning work on PowerBlog again and may change the working name, because I don’t want any thing associated with my name :)
Examining my logs show I still get a sizeable number of visitors from bBlog, which is one of [...]

After a long hiatis, a cross-country move and many other events, I decided two things:

I could no longer be involved in a group development environment, as my schedule is to sporadic; this means I no longer am one of bBlog’s developers
To keep my PHP skills honed, I’m developing a ‘private’ version of bBlog, [...]

The blog comment process needs rethought, at least for bBlog. It is far too easy for spammers to comment. When the development version ‘hits the streets’ it will give some more tools to bloggers, in the form of captcha’s. However I think more tools are needed.
For example, we have a flood threshold, which is blog [...]